Developed by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, NetworkX is a package specialized in the creation, manipulation, analysis, and graphical representation of real-life network data (it can easily operate with graphs made up of a million nodes and edges). Besides specialized data structures for graphs and fine visualization methods (2D and 3D), it provides the user with many standard graph measures and algorithms, such as the shortest path, centrality, components, communities, clustering, and PageRank. We will mainly use this package in Chapter 6, Social Network Analysis:

• Website: http://networkx.github.io/
• Version at the time of print: 2.1
• Suggested install command: pip install networkx

Conventionally, NetworkX is imported as nx:

import networkx as nx